Tie-plating machine.



No. 703,755. Pateh'ted luly I, :902.

a. L. BENDER.

TIE PLATING MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct. 25, 1901.) v (No Model.) 3 Sheets-Shut In: NORRIS Pzrzas co. mom-Limo WASHINGTON. n. c.

Patented luly l', I902.

G. L. BENDER. m: PLATING MACHINE.

(Application flied Oct. 25, M50191 3 Sheets-Sheet 2.

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YhE NCIRRIS PETERS 99 r-nnrouruu. WASHINGTON, a. c.

No. 703,755. a. L. BENDER.

TIE PLATING MACHINE.

(Application filed Oct. 25, 1901.]

(No Model.) 3 Sheets-Sheet 3.

Patented July I, I902.

' TENT OFFICE.

' GEORGE BENDER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO BENDER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

'TIE-PLATING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent NO. 703,75 5, dated July 1, 1902.

I Application filed ctober:25, 1901. Serial No. 79,895. (No model.)

.To LLZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE L. BENDER, a citizen of the United States, residing in the cityand county of San Francisco,State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tie-Plating Machines; and

I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

The present invention relates to a certain [0 new and useful apparatus for attaching the rail plates or chairs to railway-ties, which consists in meanswhereby the tie is' centered I to receive the plates or chairs in proper places and in controlled mechanism by means of which the said plates or chairs are gradually forced or driven into the ties.

In order to comprehend the invention, reference must be had to the accompanying sheets of drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a side view in elevation of the apparatus, partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the mechanism disclosed by Fig. l of the drawings with one of the cylinders removed. Fig. 3 isa cross-sectional view taken on line a 00, Fig. 2 of the drawings, with tie in position. Fig. 4 is a similar view on line c r, Fig.- 2, i1lustrating position of cylinder removed from said figure of the draw ings and tie-plate in position within its'gageplate. Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of valve-cylinder and valve and. connections which communicate'with the piston cylinders; Fig. 6, aperspective view of one of the tie-plates, and Fig. 7 a detail-view of the dieplate attached to end of one of the pressurepistons. v

y In the drawings, the numeral 1 is usedto indicate any suitable form of frame which supports the rolls 2. To the ends of said 0 frame are attached brackets 3 4E, and to said brackets are fulcrumed the levers 5 6, which levers extend beyond the frame of the machine and are connected'by rod 7. These levers at theirinner ends have pivoted thereto the arms 8 9,which are attached, respectively, to longitudinal plates 10 11. Said platesrest upon the rolls 2 and act as centering means for the ties12, fed therebetween. One'end of the plates 11 12 is flared outwardly, as seen at 13, Fig. 2 of the drawings. To one side of the bed-frame a short distance from each end I attach angle-plates 14 15. The upper face of each plate is cut away, C so as to provide a socket a, corresponding in shape to the shape ofthe tie-plate 16, fitted V therein, Fig. 2 of the drawings. These angle plates or what I shall term gageplates for the tie-plates are so arranged as to be a slight distance above the tie 12 when fitted within the machine. Said gage-plates hold the tie-platesin 'proper position while being forcedinto the tie. Inasmuch as the tie-plates vary in size and shape, it is required that the gage-plates be detachably connected to the bed-frame, so that they may be readily removed and ones attached havinga tie-plate opening or seat which corresponds to the 1 shape and size of the tie-plate to be used.

The tie-supporting rolls 2 work in bearings of brackets 17, bolted or otherwise secured to the bed-frame.' Each roll-bracket l7 rests upon a cushion 18 so that a slight give is permitted as pressure is exerted upon thesupported tie to force the tie-plate 16 into the wood. The object of this give is to provide against therolls bruising or marring the undergfaceof ,the tie when the same is forced downward by the pressure-pistons. I

At the outer end of the bed-frame is fulcrumed the lever 18, the curved arm 19 of which extends above the bed-frame 1 and serves as a stop for the inward movement of the tie 12. Y

Any suitable pressure means maybe employed to force the tie-plates or chairs into thewood of the ties. However. I prefer to use and have illustrated hydraulic means for this purpose. The hydraulic means consists of the piston-cylinders 2O 2l,supported by columns or standards 22, secured to the bed- 0 frame 1, near each end thereof. Within these cylinders work the pistons 23, to the stem 24 of which is attached a head 25. V The stem of the pistons works through a stuffingbox 26. An annular passage-way 27 exists between the piston-stem and inner wall of the cylinders, with which connects a waterpipe 28. This pipe communicates with the water-supply pipe 29, which pipe connects with the valve-cylinder 30. Within this cyl- 10o inder works the vertically-movable valve 31, the stem 32 of which is connected by link 33 to lever 34:. This lever is fulcrumed to bracket 35, depending from cylinder 30. The body 7 portion of the valve is cutaway, so as toleave an annular passage 36 between said body portion of the valve and the casing 37, fitted within the cylinder, and within which the valve works. The water fromsupply-pipe 29 flows into this annular space-through perforations38 in the casing. The flow of water 3 from the annular passage-way into outlet-pipe 39 is Controlled by'th'e movement of valve 31. If the valve is raised, its collar 40 iscarried off of its seat 41 and communication established between passage-way 36 and outlet-pipe 39. This pipe connects with the cylinders and 21 above the piston 23. Consequently the moment the'valve 31 has been raised wa- "ter'under pressure enters the said cylinders and forces the pistons 23 downward. Asthus moved downward the head 25 bears against the tie-plates'ldand forces the tongues Or projections 42 into the wood'of the tie.

The

' moment the water-pressure is cut off by the lever 34 being thrown to draw the valve31 downward its full distance to seat the valvecollar 40 and close. communication between outlet-pipe 39 and passage way,36 thepistons 23'are' moved upward, so as to move head 25 olfof tie-plate. This is dueto the'pressure of water admitted through pipe 28 into passage-way27being suflicient to force the pistons 2.3 upward. .Upon the return stroke of.

the pistons the water within the cylinders is I forced backthrough outlet-pipe39 into chamber42 of cylinder 30 and is-discharged therefrom through exhaust-pipe 43.

The pipe connections between the 'cylin-' vders are preferably made in sections, thus permitting of same being shortened orlength ened. that the piston-cylinders may be moved toward and from each other, so as to adjust, the

distance in accordance to the distancebe tween, the gage-plates for the tieplates" or chairs. Inasmuch as the gage of the railways is not uniform, the position ofv the gageplates must be changed in accordance with the gage of. the road for the use of which theties are plated. If a narrow-gage road,

' the tie-plates are attached closer together than in the case of a standard or broad gage.

The present machine is readily adapted for any gage required, it being only required that the gage-plates for the tie-plates be adjusted toward or from each other and that thepositionof the piston-cylinders be likewise altered, so that the piston-head-will be in line with and bear upon the tie-plate held within the gage-plate.

Ofttimes it'is required that the tie-plate be not attached to thetie, but that the tie be simply'stamped to readily receive the tie-- plate. For this purpose there is attached to the piston-heads a die 43, Fig. 7 of the drawings,whiehis provided with dependinglugs 4 1' corresponding to those of the tie-plate. 'As i the pistons move downward these lugs are forced into the tie in the position that thetie- 1 plate is to be fitted. When the pistons move This adjustment is, required in order away from the tie, therewill be'left-thereirr; the impression of the tie-plate, thedie being shaped to correspond withYthat'of the tieplate.

. As thus stamped the tie platemay,

when desired, be quickly and easilyflfitted l.

within the impressionthus made It will be understood. that the described I tothefties. To do this, itisonlyrequired.' U

machine applies chair's as well as' tie-plates that the piston-heads be changed in shapefto accord with that of the chairs to be used. 7

By the useof the ,p'resentymachine-the ties j I may. bezplated and kept on handsoplated; until desired for use, or they may be shipped.

directly to the place desired as plated, thus} saving much-time in the worl; of 'constructin g or repairing railway-Work. Ifnot desired to ship the ties plate,d,'then the tieimpr ese sions may be made. in: thejtie'and. the -.tie-

plate properly placed when the tie is placed 7 in the road-bed.-

p The advantageof plating the ties Tin thi manner is that thework 'is done uniformly andthe tie-plates evenly attached to the ties.

The operation is asiollowsz A workman places a tie 12 between the centering-plates 1O 11 at their outwardly-flared end and moves same inward, the tie. riding upon thesupporting-rolls 2 until itsinwa rd movementor.

travel .is stopped by'end' thereof contacting T with. a rm:19-.of fulcrumed lever 18. This leverishelddow nwardby foot pressure of the operatorof the machine. When/the tie. 12 is thus placed within themachine, one of the levers 5 6, is thrownso as to draw the too 7 plates 10 11- together, causing same tofirmly axisof the piston-heads 25., l The mom entthe clasp the tieand center same to theverti'cal' p 7 tie has been properly'centered a :tie plate 16 is j H J slipped or placed within socket or opening a I of each gage-platel t -15, which gage-plates i are so adjusted as tooverliethe tie at points I corresponding to the position for the tie-- As thus held within the gage-plates 2 the lugs or projections42 ofIthe tie-plates 16 i plates.

will rest upon the'upper su-rfaceof the tie 12.

Lever 34 is'then moved-so as to lift valve 31 in order to establish communication between 21.' The water pressure th'usf admitted, into' the cylinders above thepistons-23 forcesthe I pistons downward.

As moved'downward un-, der high pressure the piston-stem heads-25 bear upon tie-plates 16 and forcethelugs or projections 11 of same into thewoodofth'e] ties. Lever 34E is'then thrown downward, so

as toeause valve 31- to close -.the waterway. The pressure ofwater admitted through pipe 28 to cylinders ,12Ofand 21" below the pistons.- j I 23 is sufficient. to overcome the loadof water."

resting thereon and toraise the pistons withein the cylinderss Asthus raised the 'fwater resting thereon is eXpelledfrom within the cylinders and forced backintocylinder 30, from which it escapes through exhaust; J pipe. During the upstrokeof the pistons the heads'25 are moved away from thetie-pla'tesh a 'S the water-supply pipe and cylinders; 20- and i plates 11 are moved away from the tie and the lever 18 released, when the tie is free to be moved through the machine. It will be understood that the operation is the same as that described in case the tie-plates are not I0 used, but only a tie-plate impression he formed. Lever 18 is fulcrumed to a plate 18,

adjustably attached to the bed-frame. By permitting of an adjustment atthispoint the position of the tie is regulated in accordance with the distance of the tie-plate from the end thereof. This adjustment of the lever overcomes the necessity as to adjusting or changing the position of cylinders 20 and gage-plate located therebelow, thus only re quiring that cylinder 21 and its gage-plate be adjusted'to obtain the desired distance between the tie-platesv After-the parts have been once adjusted it is unnecessary to mark or measure each tie as to the position for securing the tie-plates, for after such adjustment the tie-plates will be attached to the ties uniformly, each tie receiving its tieplates or tie-plate impression at the same point in accordance with the tie-gage required.

I/Vhile I have illustrated the parts as detachably secured to the bed-frame by bolts, it will be understood that any well-known means for adj ustably connecting same to the bed-frame may be utilized.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure protection in by Letters Patent, is

1. A tie plating apparatus comprising means for receiving and centering a tie, devices for holding tie-plates gaged to the tie, and means for exerting pressure upon thetieplates and driving same into the tie. 2. A tie-plating apparatus comprising means whereby the tie is received and centered, spaced devices for receiving the tieplates and holding same gaged to the tie, devices for limiting the inward movement of the tie and means for forcing the tie-plates into the tie.

3. Atie-plating machine comprising means for receiving the tie to be plated, adjustable gage l plates for the tie -plates, mechanism whereby the tie is centered and held. during the operation of plating, and adjustable means for exerting pressure upon the tieplates and forcing same into the tie.

4:. In a tie-plating machine, the combination with the supporting-rolls for the tie, of means for centering and locking the tie to be plated.

5. In a tie-plating machine, the combination with the bed, of means for centering the tie placed thereon and holding same locked during the operation of applying tie-plates to the tie, gage-plates for the tie-plates, verticallymovable pistons for forcing the tie-plates into the tie, and of means for imparting vertical movement to the said pistons.

6. In a machine of the described character, the combination with the bed, of tie-rolls arranged above the bed, cushions interposed between the bed and rolls, and means whereby the tie is centered and held centered.

7. In a tie-plating machine, the combination with the bed, of gage-plates for the tieplates' adj ustably secured thereto," of means whereby thetie is centered andheld centered during the operation of applying tie-plates to the tie, and mechanism whereby the tie-plates are forced into thetie. I

8. In a machine of the described character, the combination with the bed, of the gageplates attached thereto, means for centering and holding the tie centered to the work, of

vertically-movable pistons, and mechanism for imparting movement to said pistons.

9. The combination with the bed, of the I gage-plates attached thereto, a lever for limiting the inward movement ofthe tie, said lever being adjustably attached to the bed, and means for centering the tie and holding same centered to the work.

10. In a machine of the described character, the combination with the bed, of means for centering and holding the tie centered to the. work, of the verticallymovable pistons, a

die-plate attached to the stems thereof, and means for imparting movement to said pistons to force the dies carried therebyinto the tie'whereby an impression of the tie-plate is formed in the tie at properfpoints.

' 11.' In a machine'for applying tie-plates to a railroad-tie, the combination with movable pressure devices located at a predetermined distance apart, of tie-supporter toward which said movable pressure devices approach, and means for actuating said movable devices whereby the interposed tie-plates and tie are subjected to compression at the points'of en gagement between the tie-platesand tie.

12. In a machine for applying tie-plates to 'IIO ties, the combination with movable pressure devices located at a predetermined distance apart, of tie supporter toward which said.

movable pressure devices approach, and means for actuating said movable pressure devices whereby the interposed tie-plates and tie are subjected tocompression, and means adapted to engage one end of the tie to properly position the same with respect to the tieplates.

- 13. In a machine for applying tie-plates to a railroad-tie, the combination with movable pressure devices located at a predetermined distance apart, of tie-supporter toward which said movable pressure devices approach whereby the interposed tie-plates and tie are subjected to compression, and means for retainin g the tie in proper positionwith respect to the tie-plates while the latter are beinginserted.

14. In a machine for'applying tie-plates to properly position the same with respectto the tie-plates, and means for retaining the tie in the desired position relative to the plates while the latter are being applied.

15. In a machine for applying tie-plates to I a railroad-tie, the combination with cylinders located at a predetermined distance apart, of pistons therein, of tie-supporter toward which such pistons are adapted to move and means for controlling the admission of fluid-pressure to said cylinders whereby the interposed tie-plates and; tie are subjected to compression at the-points of engagement between said plates and tie.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. p

GEORGE L. BENDER.

WVitnesses:

N. A. ACKER, D. BRIoH RDs. 

